* Advance Pricing Agreement

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

In August 2005, the first video game featuring Gumby, Gumby vs. the Astrobots, was released by Namco for the Game Boy Advance.

The Viceregal Salute — composed of the first and last four bars of the National Anthem (" Advance Australia Fair ")— is the salute used to greet the governor upon arrival at, and mark his or her departure from most official events, although " God Save The Queen ", as the Royal Anthem, is also used.

It was later re-released for the Game Boy Advance on December 9, 2002, in North America, on a cartridge with Four Swords, the first multiplayer Zelda, and then through Nintendo's Virtual Console service on January 22, 2007.

The NES version was ported twice to the Game Boy Advance: first in 2004 as one of thirty games in the Classic NES Series ( known as the Famicom Mini Series in Japan ), then bundled with a version of the Puzzle League series in 2005 under the title Dr. Mario & Puzzle League.

The first sequel entitled Kururin Paradise came out in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance.

# Go forward ( 問路尋橋手先行 ) Advance immediately in order to attack the opponents attacking action, IF contact is made with the limbs use reactions developed from chi-sao ( allowing for Chi Sao reflexes to take over ) or — even better — to strike first.

Over 1981 and 1982, Summers recorded his first album with Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked.

The mode was first included in Super Mario Advance, and was praised for its simplicity and entertainment value.

Space Channel 5 was first released in Japan in 1999 and North America and Europe in 2000 for the Dreamcast and was later released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan and Europe in 2002 and ported by THQ to the Game Boy Advance in 2003.

The Hidalgo Advance, the county's first newspaper, went into publication in March 1903.

and Tomorrow Is the Question ) and the first two albums by Cecil Taylor ( Jazz Advance and Looking Ahead ) mark the beginnings of free jazz, though they still retain a hold on bebop and hard bop languages.

The two mastheads were merged to form The Advance Leader, with the first issue published on May 14, 1975.

The Super Mario Advance version of Super Mario Bros. 2 includes several new features such as the addition of the enemy Robirdo ( a robotic Birdo acting as the boss of World 3, replacing Mouser ), the addition of the Yoshi Challenge ( in which players may revisit stages to search for Yoshi Eggs ), and an all-new point-scoring system ( a first for the game ).

* Dawn of Souls from Final Fantasy, a 2004 remake of two first games of the Final Fantasy series on Game Boy Advance

Taylor's first recording, Jazz Advance, featured Lacy and was released in 1956.

An N-Gage version of the first Game Boy Advance game was released in 2005 titled The King of Fighters Extreme, which added Bluetooth multi-player.

In 2004, Koei created the first Dynasty Warriors title for portable game handhelds, Dynasty Warriors, on PlayStation Portable, and in the following year, Dynasty Warriors Advance for Game Boy Advance.

The group's first album, Advance and Follow, was released in 1995.

* February 21 – Australia experiences its first fatal airline accident since 1968 when an Advance Aviation Beechcraft King Air 200 suffers the failure of an engine shortly after takeoff from Sydney Airport in Mascot, Australia, due to water in the fuel tank and crashes into a seawall while trying to return to the airport.

Included in his collected works was Advance Australia Fair, which was first performed in public by Andrew Fairfax at the St Andrew's Day concert of the Highland Society on 30 November 1878.

In its first weeks of availability in the United States, it was outsold by the Game Boy Advance 100 to 1.

* Fire Emblem 64 ( scrapped, some elements of the plot was later used on the first Fire Emblem for Game Boy Advance, Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi )

Entitled Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism, the declaration was the first statement made by the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and to date has been signed by around 250 parties.

The Advance is the primary direction of movement, regardless of which direction the soldiers are actually facing ( similar to a ship's bow.

Advance publicity on the Los Angeles Blue Book does not mention names dropped as did the notices for the New York Social Register which made news last week.

** The Game Boy Advance line, except for the Game Boy Micro, is backward compatible with all Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

The UN Advance Mission for Cambodia ( UNAMIC ) was deployed at the same time to maintain liaison among the factions and begin demining operations to expedite the repatriation of approximately 370, 000 Cambodians from Thailand.

In the 1970s the funding Engelbart's group received from the Advance Research Project Agency ( ARPA ) was cut and many key members of Engelbart's team went to work for Xerox PARC where they continued to experiment with the mouse and keyset.

Doom became a " killer app " that all capable consoles and operating systems were expected to have, and versions of Doom have subsequently been released for the following systems: DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Super NES, Sega 32X, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Symbian OS, RISC OS, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Tapwave Zodiac, 3DO, Xbox, and Xbox Live Arcade.

The Game Boy line ( including Game Boy Advance for Ambassadors ) has made a retro return via the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console.

The feature was only supported in a few games, however, and the infrared port was dropped for the Game Boy Advance and later releases.

No cartridges made for any system earlier than a Game Boy Advance will function in the Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite, and nothing earlier than a DS card will function in a Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DSi XL, or Nintendo 3DS.

* Most Inane Technical Advance: Percepto, designed by William Castle for his 1959 film, The Tingler starring Vincent Price.

It was later re-released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004, and for the Wii's Virtual Console online service in 2007.

In August 2004, Kid Icarus was re-released in Japan as part of the Famicom Mini Disk System Selection for the Game Boy Advance.

In Castlevania: Circle of the Moon for Game Boy Advance, it is a DSS card that represents the power of the plants.

In Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow for Game Boy Advance, it is a plant with a vaguely human form that is pulled from the ground by a skeleton.

The second sequel, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001.

* Mario Pinball Land, also known as Super Mario Ball, a pinball video game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance

Two hijackers, Hani Hanjour and Majed Moqed were identified by clerks as having bought single, first-class tickets for Flight 77 from Advance Travel Service in Totowa, New Jersey with $ 1, 842. 25 in cash.

* NASA Institute for Advance Concepts study by General Dynamics-concluded that complexity of the development was equal to that of a Pentium 4, and promoted a design based on cellular automata.

In November 2004 in Japan and Europe, and January 2005 in America, Nintendo released The Minish Cap for the Game Boy Advance.

It was re-released in 1998 as a Toymax, Inc. Mini Classic and was later included as an unlockable extra in Game & Watch Gallery 4, a 2002 compilation for the Game Boy Advance.

To: ' Advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the international community by helping to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world composed of well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty, and act responsibly within the international system.

* VisualBoyAdvance, an emulator for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance handheld video game system